The Dillon tribune., 1887-07-08
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.

FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Mrs. CIeveland's birthday will be July
u. She is e.
lula &. K. Dorr will spend the summer
in England and Scotland.
Louise Imogcnc Quincy is about to
bring out a new volume Of poems.
Mrs. Ole Bull has taken Edwin Booths
house on Chester street, Boston, for next
winter.
Marie Dronsari, French woman, has
written a biography Of Bismarck in three
volumes.
Mrs. lanes T. Fields has one Of the
choicest selections Of autograph letters Of
authors in America.
Queen Marghsrita, Of Italy, has estnb.
lished an asylum for the blind in the Baths
of Dioceletion At Rome.
A woman In Crewe, England, has lately
been appointed town crier and bill poster.
She performs the duty BY deputy.
Louisa Alcott has weakness for the
society Of young girls. She makes studies
Of them, and puts them In her books.
Miss Hea.horne, the "fair Maid. Of
Kent" 6sisted her ,o3d year few days
ago. She IL in health, and finds . xest in
life. =.
Al Rutlam, in Central India, the ioun.
assion stone has been laid for girls' school,
to be called the Victoria Jubilee Girls
Sche0l.
Miss Boddingt'.n, an American girl, has
gained the Mencheles prize a, Leirsic.
The test piece was the composers & minof
concerto.
A class Of seven young women
graduated last month from the training.
school for nurses At the Buffalo N. W
Genera, Hospital.
Mrs. Susan l.. Mile, with her late hus.
band, founded Mills College, Oakland, Cal.
She is now the principal and has added
$soooo to It's endowment
Archduchess Marie Valerie, Of Austria,
who is betrothed 10 the heir presu,nptive
to the crown Of Saxony, has literary tastes
and Is = frequent contributor to German
magazines.
Mrs. Annie Maupin, Of Gasconade
county, Mo-, is well.prescrve.l woman.
She is ninety eight years old, can walk
two miles at stretch, and has seventy two
grandchildren.
Kentucky persis.s in illustrating an i'm.
perfect stage Of civilization. The Paducah
city court has ad)udged woman = vagrant,
and has ordered her to be sold for thirty
days to the highest bidder.
Katherine lyman, an Irish lady who has
written some beautiful poems, is about to
publish new volume entitled "Shan,.
rocks," which will be dedicated to her
friends William and Christina Rossc,,i.
The vsssar students heard Mrs. Jennes.
Miller lecture on dress, and the Miscrl1o.,
has very kind word for the new styles
and sensible one for the healthful dress
Next year they may have "tea gowns" 4,
Vassar.
Elizabeth Smith Short, one OF the frs
graduating class Of the Kingston Women''
Medical College, was chosen as lecture,
upon M dical jurisprudence and sanitar,
science in the Women's Medical College o
Kingston, Canada, at the las, meeting O
the Board Of Trustees.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is slowly recover
ing from her dangerous illness. l, is an
nounced that she will soon bid farewell
forever to Meridcn, Conn. She has nevc
liked the place. 1t is lacking in scntimcn
and passion and docs not fully appreciate
the genius Of Miss Wilcox. After passin,
the summer at some watering place tn
poetcss will return to her home in Wis
consin.
Mrs. Francis l.. ". Harper, as u lecture
and writer, is probably the mos. prominen
woman of the negro race. Born free, SCI
educated, she began lecturiug under tn
auspices Of the Anti tislavery Commissio
in New Bedford. After the war she le.
turcd throughout the Southern States ,
the freedmen on the subject OF educatio,
at her own expense. She wrote book
poems, Of which over 10000 copies We.
sold, and waa for some time regular CO,
tributor to the Indcttsd.st.